Talk:Republic of Korea Navy/Archive 1

Archive 1

Regarding Hull Numbers

The 4th ship of the KDX-3 series will not be named 994, because the ROKN tends to avoid number 4 in their hull designations. But please confirm, and edit as needed.

Signing post for archiving. Redalert2fan (talk) 00:38, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

Contributions from the US Navy, Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy?

Could the fact that the ROKN was able to secure the seas around Korea during the war because of help from three of the worlds largest Navies (at the time)? Unless I am much mistaken, the US Navy in particular was VERY active during the Korean war. Being a non-expert in Naval History, but having some knowledge of the History of the world, this LEAPED to my brain as something that should have been obvious to the writer of this article. Also, would the North Korean People's Navy be influenced and supported by the Soviet Navy? --V. Joe 21:13, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

U.S Navy was the biggest contributor of all, and donated ships and equipments to ROKN throughout the war and for couple of years after the war. I'm not sure about the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy - I think their main contribution was through ground forces. Also, I don't think the Soviet Navy helped NK Navy very much, as Soviet aid came mostly in forms of T-34 tanks and fighter planes. To my knowledge, I think the Coalition forces of U.S + UN and South Korea had naval + air superiority. Deiaemeth 09:35, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Deiaemeth: Thanks for your kind attention. I was pretty sure that was the case by the RN/RCN Navies. I actually was pretty sure that UN Forces had air and naval superiority almost to the point of absolute superiority. I just thought that any contributions by the USN or RN should be mentioned. You are also probably correct concerning Soviet Naval influence, although there would have been at least a token Soviet Naval advisor. Remember further that the Soviet support was mostly early during that war and that the PROC would provide help later. --V. Joe 17:37, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your attention on the article. The historical info on this article I'm afraid wasn't written by me, and I'm pretty sure they were copy+pasted from somewhere else (Globalsecurity and the official website of ROKN, I presume). I'll be doing a major clean-up sometime soon and re-word and integrate information. I'll be sure to add more info on US contribution, as US contribution was backbone of the ROKN well througout the 1950s and 1970s (the Gearing class frigates and etc.). Recently, with the advent of KDX program and other programs to modernize the ROKN, many of these vessels were decomissioned, so I will try to find a list of these vessels and add them to the article. I'm not quite sure about the RN/RCN Contribution, but I'll look for them. Regarding Soviet influence on NK navy, I'm planning to create a seperate article for the NK Navy (right now, it's only a stub). I'm pretty sure NK's surface fleet (little corvettes and missile attack boats) were of indigenous design, but many of NK's submarine fleet (Sang-o class and Romeo Class, etc.) were indeed from the Soviet Union. This article is only really at the beginning stage right now - it was only a redirect to Military of South Korea article just a couple weeks ago, and needs a lot more attention. Again, thank you. Deiaemeth 05:16, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Presumably, I'd also look for a few French hulls as well. They wouldn't have been directly involved in war, but purchase of a French frigate wouldn't be uncommon for that part of the world. During the war, there were probably also a handful of Royal Australian Navy vessels as well. Glad I could offer ideas V. Joe 14:21, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Major revision

The entire article (including the history section) has been on a major overhaul since Feb 2007.Bin2k1 13:24, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:58, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Midshipman?

One of the photos on this page shows a woman whom the caption describes as "A Korean midshipman", but the epaulette visible on her shoulder shows four stripes--which in most naval insignias designates a captain. Is the caption correct? MishaPan (talk) 04:12, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Forth year midshipmen wear the epaulet with four thin stripes.--Bin2k1 (talk) 10:46, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Romanization

In the article, all South Korean ships' names are spelled accordingly with the Revised Romanization of Korean system and supplied with hull numbers in order to avoid confusions. Exceptions are ships named after a person's name (e.g. Chang Bo-go, Yi Sunshin, Sohn Won-yil) because the romanization of the personal name has already been established.Bin2k1 (talk) 07:53, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Baekgu, Cheongnyong, and the Vietnam War

From the way the article is written, it is hard to tell what exactly Baekgu and Cheongnyong refer to. Is Baekgu a single transport ship, or a fleet of transports? Regarding Cheongnyong and the ROKMC, is Cheongnyong the name of a Marine division, or is it actually the name of a ROKN ship? This is a section that could use some cleaning up, even if English-language sources able to clarify these questions are rare.

Singing post for archiving. Redalert2fan (talk) 00:40, 22 March 2019 (UTC)

German railgun

I removed a crazy seeming edit from this article. Please consider using a RS before you add something like that to the article V. Joe (talk) 21:41, 26 January 2011 (UTC)